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Communicating, Randy’s school report tells us, is not his strongest skill. For the first eight years of his life, in fact, he didn’t speak at all. Nowadays he does, although his words are sometimes inaudible. But he is communicating, albeit in his own way.

Instead of searching for the ideal model for a photo shoot, photographers of the future may be able to generate one using artificial intelligence. Neural networks these days can generate portraits of imaginary people.

Jianmin Huang, better known as Jimmy on the Run, is a fashion and street photographer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The 7-minute video above by Wytse Koetse is an inspiring look at the life and work of this passionate photographer (note: there’s a bit of strong language and nudity).

Photographer Éric Lafforgue has spent years traveling the world to shoot documentary photos for well-known publications. He was even given rare access to North Korea, where he shot thousands of photos showing citizens and government officials going about their daily lives.

Menu The Big Picture The Big Picture 2015 Year in Pictures: Part I Photographs from January - June on a range of topics from around the world.--By Leanne Burden Seidel 1 A man holds a giant pencil as he takes part in a solidarity march in the streets of Paris after theCharlie Hebdo shootings, Jan.

This is the second of two articles about research on Vivian Maier. The first was published on Lens on Tuesday. In the 1950s, when she was in her 20s, Vivian Maier visited a photo studio run by women in Union City, N.J. She had known one of them — Jeanne Bertrand — since she was a child.

Photographer Ho Fan has been shooting black and white street photography since the 1950s. At the time, he was living in the poor, rundown Central neighborhood of Hong Kong. The streets, filled with food and trinket vendors, captured the recent Shanghai transplant’s attention.

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